Artigo Revisado por pares

Frecuencia de parásitos intestinales en pacientes VIH+ en la ciudad de Santa Fe de Bogotá

1999; National University of Colombia; Volume: 47; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

ISSN

2357-3848

Autores

Myriam Consuelo López, Ligia Inés Moneada, Martha Isabel Murcia, Jaime Saravia, Rubén Santiago Nicholls,

Tópico(s)

Parasites and Host Interactions

Resumo

The objective ofthe present work is to find frequency of intestinasl opportunistic parasites in a population of HIV + outpatients that assisted to the program of Sexual Transmited Diseases (STD) in University Hospital San Juan de Dios at Santa Fe de Bogota. Cryptosporidum sp. and lsospora belli were observed in 1% of patients. It is important to emphasize the low frequency of opportunistic parasites in this study. The highest prevelence corresponded to Endolimax-nana (15.1 %) and Entamoeba coli (13.2%). The frequency of nematodes is very low: unicinaria and Strongyloides stercoralis were presentn 1%.

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